The Internet-search leader that prides itself on organizing the world’s information lost control of its own data when a contractor released its third-quarter earnings report more than three hours before the numbers were supposed to come out.

As if that wasn’t jarring enough, the results alarmed investors because the company’s earnings and revenue fell well below analysts’ projections. The disappointment triggered an 8 percent drop in Google’s stock price that erased about $20 billion in shareholder wealth.

“This is a monumental failure of epic proportions,” said Michael Robinson, an executive vice president for Levick Strategic Communications, which specializes in financial-crisis management. “This was bad news compounded by bad process. It came out in the worst way possible.”

Google blamed printer R.R. Donnelley & Sons for filing the company’s quarterly statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission more than three hours ahead of schedule.

Google earned $2.18 billion, or $6.53 per share, during the three months ending in September. That compared with net income of $2.73 billion, or $8.33 per share, for the same period last year.

More than a third of Americans in a new national survey said they think the heightened focus on diversity at work has overlooked white men. Meanwhile, 32 percent of male respondents, meanwhile, reported feeling “personally excluded” in the office.

An unprecedented $350 million worth of commercial projects broke ground along the I-25 corridor in Thornton in 2017, city economic development officials say. There is little reason to think the flood of development will stop any time soon, and neighbors Westminister